Re: Question regarding EIP instruction pointer

"A D" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.assembly
Message-ID <[email protected]>
leslie.polzer wrote:
>In order to execute the current instruction, the CPU must determine its
>format, which also means finding out how many bytes the command takes.
>
>Next command is at eip+sizeof(command).  Of course, this only holds for
>subsequent execution, branching is another thing.

Thanks for your insight. You mentioned the process is different for 
branching.                     Is it possible to explain a little(I'm a bit 
curious)?

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